Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie.

And this is a Halloween special.

It's nearly Halloween and I've gotten a lot of requests that I do another HP Lovecraft

story to set the mood for the season.

So this is the Statement of Randolph Carter by HP Lovecraft.

I repeat to you gentlemen, that your Inquisition is fruitless.

Detain me here forever if you will.

Confine or execute me if you must have a victim to propitiate the illusion you called justice.

But I can say no more than I have said already.

Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candor.

Nothing has been distorted or concealed.

And if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over

my mind.

That cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me.

Again I say I do not know what has become of Harley Warren.

Though I think, almost hope, that he is in peaceful oblivion.

If there be anywhere so blessed a thing.

It is true that I have for five years been his closest friend.

And a partial share of his terrible researches into the unknown.

I will not deny, though my memory is uncertain and indistinct, that this witness of yours

may have seen us together as he says.

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